Been running my setup for about eight months now — Victron Multiplus-II 48/3000 feeding a 200Ah Fogstar Drift LiFePO4 bank, 800W of panels on the hut roof.
Been running a 200Ah Fogstar Drift in my shepherd's hut for about eight months now. Generally dead happy with it — pairs nicely with my Victron SmartSolar and the Bluetooth monitoring via the...
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Running the same unit into my shepherd's hut setup via a dedicated van that shuttles between sites.
@EmmaPowell74 yeah, been there. My shepherd's hut setup had the exact same issue two winters ago with a 100Ah LiFePO4 — woke up to a flat system because the BMS had locked out charging overnight...
Curse or not, I'll keep it brief anyway.
Not on a boat but my shepherd's hut setup taught me a few things that cross over.
Running almost the same setup in my shepherd's hut — Fogstar Drift 280Ah cells in a 12V bank, though I went with a JK BMS rather than the Daly.
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Not a boat setup here but running a Victron SmartSolar 100/30 on my shepherd's hut and the MPPT advantage in low light is very real — I'm still pulling decent amps at 8am on...
NeilBurns91 | 287 posts | 🐑 Shepherd's Hut & EV Tinkerer
@StormyHiker worth checking your battery temperature sensor if you've got one fitted.
Ran a cheap eBay MPPT on my shepherd's hut build for about 8 months before it started misreporting battery voltage — was showing 13.8v when my Fogstar cells were clearly sitting higher.
@DuctTapeDave60 worth flagging that a basic VSR/split-charge relay won't play nicely if you eventually want to add solar into the mix — you'll get backfeed issues.
Been planning my shepherd's hut build for about 18 months now and I keep going round in circles on the battery bank.
The honeymoon period is real, but what's often overlooked is that your baseline consumption probably drops in summer too—shorter evenings, less heating, that sort of thing.
That's a stunning capture. Frost patterns on polytunnel plastic have a real otherworldly quality to them, especially when the light hits just right.
